BACK BOWL

The Dog Whisperer: How One Lady Spoke To My Dog And Told Me What He Was Really Thinking

Our editor takes a turn with an “animal communicator”

06/01/2013 By Ted Katauskas

DINE

The Low-Key Lifestyle and Cooking of One of Vail's Farm-to-Table Innovators

Mirabelle’s farm-to-table master gets his hands dirty in the garden and the kitchen.

06/01/2013 By Ted Katauskas

PERSON OF INTEREST

The Dog Star

Ryan Millbern, Vail PD's first canine officer, braves the heat and bombs of Baghdad with a new four-legged partner.

06/01/2013 By Ted Katauskas

EAT THIS NOW

Ice Cream Dreams

You won’t find frozen delights like these by following a truck blaring “Pop Goes the Weasel.” When we sampled the ice-cream of the crop at a few of the valley’s finest restaurants and cafés, we heard strains of Mozart and Vivaldi.

06/01/2013 By Ted Katauskas

VILLAGE TALK

Charless in Charge

Fireside with Jan Strauch, visionary of vertical grilling

06/01/2013 By Ted Katauskas

VILLAGE TALK

Leaky Lake

The fractured tale of Avon's here-again, gone-again liquid asset

06/01/2013 By Ted Katauskas

EDITOR'S NOTE

Cache as Cache Can

"In the summer, you get to learn the mountain from the bottom up."

06/01/2013 By Ted Katauskas

PERSON OF INTEREST

Vail's Avalanche Guru Talks Life and Death in the Mountains

Dale Atkins reflects on a life lived on the edge.

02/01/2013 By Ted Katauskas

PROFILE

Chairman of the Board

Is Arn Menconi's SOS Outreach life support for kids, or a life ring for a flailing snow-sports industry?

02/01/2013 By Ted Katauskas

VILLAGE TALK

Powder Days, Ice Theaters, and Up-Hill Skiers

The valley's conduit to the snow gods, the coolest movie theater in Vail, a snow-sports competition for the Ritalin generation, the village's buff male mascot, and more.

02/01/2013 By Shauna Farnell, Stewart Oskenhorn, and Ted Katauskas